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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1933 - 1945

Other FDR pictures are located at TP Images of American Political History and FDR Library's Online Photos.

 

Required Readings - Weeks 1 through 3, M of Week 4 (January 23 to February 9):
Greenstein Chapter 1 (The Presidential Difference) & Chapter 2 (on FDR) 

Russell Renka - The Modern Presidency from Roosevelt through George W. Bush

Russell Renka - The New Deal Political Coalition of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Russell Renka - Roosevelt's Expansion of the Presidency

FDR elections  - 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944

FDR Quiz - February 2 to February 9 (before midnight) at UTest's Roosevelt Quiz - Spring 2009

Essay 1 on FDR - due by Friday, February 13 (Week 4) at midnight in Drop Box

Sample Student Essay on FDR

Professor Renka's Roosevelt Links; Miller Center's biography - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt:  A Life in Brief

Timeline:  The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century - Franklin D. Roosevelt

FDR as war leader:  Miller Center's Franklin Delano Roosevelt:  Foreign Affairs and American Experience, FDR Foreign Policy

FDR Speech Files:
1)  First Fireside Chat on Banking - full-length audio of Banking Crisis (3/12/1933); read along at "On the Banking Crisis"; also can review Volpe's text at Banking Crisis - Banishing Fear and Restoring Confidence; hear brief audio excerpt from Am Pres Project (APP):  First Fireside Chat
2) essay on word picturing from "I hate war!"  (8/14/1936); audio from APP - Address at Chautauqua
3) National Archives audio - "Four Freedoms" (1/06/1941); context and Norman Rockwell portraits at National Archives, Poster Art from World War II - Four Freedoms (general site: Powers of Persuasion; Parts I and II); alt. audio and text site:  American Rhetoric, Franklin Roosevelt - The Four Freedoms
4) audio excerpt from APP, "My dog Fala" - Address at a Union Dinner, Washington, D.C.  (9/23/1944); alt. site:  FDR The 'Fala' Speech and excerpt of Fala part at President Franklin Roosevelt defends his dog Fala (.ram file)

Links out to FDR speech sites: 
-Miller Center's Franklin D. Roosevelt Speeches
-The American President Project (APP)- Audio-Video Archive - Franklin D. Roosevelt
-FDR Library's Audio and Video clips and Fireside Chats by subject area and date  -APP list of Fireside Chats by dates only
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Inscriptions from major speeches

General site for rhetorical presidency literature - Martin Medhurst's Rhetorical Presidency syllabus, Spring 2008

Photographs:
-Russell Renka photo essay, FDR in wartime
-FDR Library's Online Photos
-History Server's FDR images 1937 to 1939, and  WW2 Timeline

Key Terms and Points on FDR:
Historical and Political Key Terms; Rhetorical Key Terms

History Links:
History: USA: 1930-1939 and History: USA: 1940-1950 from US history Virtual Library
Richard Jensen's American Political History On-Line - FDR

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[Modern Presidents] [Presidential Elections] [Election Maps, by County] [Presidents and Congress] [Videos] [Renka's Home Page]
[Gradebook] [Forum] [UTest] [Drop Box] [Department] [Southeast Missouri State University]

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